Connecticut western news., 1887-11-09
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

There are no rounds of drink in the ladder of success.
 The estate of the late Dr N. Burton of Hartford inventories $15, 733, 19.
 Senator Hawley will reside, after his marriage, at No ], ,514 K street Washing ton.
 Ex-Congressmtn B. W. Seymour has taken house in Bridgeport and will soon remove there from Litchfeld.
 Substitution of the Baker hot water heat CT for all car stoves has been ordered by the directors of the Consolidated road.
 On account of the prevalence of diph- theria at Waterbury, St. Margaret's school of that city has been closed for a time. -...
 Six hundred cattle have been slaughtered in Westchester county on account of the prevalence of pleuro- pneumonia. -.... .....
 Barnums circus has gone into winter quarters. During 182 days it has kept 500 persons busy, has travelled 1O,56O miles and drawn $l,2O0,OOO from the community. s-
 Miss Belle Eldredge has purchased the corner lot near w. I. Sparks store in Norfolk, and is soon to erect public library and reading and conversation room connected.
 The Rapid Transit Coach company of Bridgeport has suspended business after only about three mounths' trial. When the Seaside park season closed patron age dropped off and nothing was left.
 The Western Union Telegraph com pany has filed certificate with thesecre- tary of state in Albany, increasing it's capital $5, ,OOO,O to SS5, 900, 900. The company paid $6,25O into the state treasury under the Vedder law.
 It is said that enough beer is an- nually consumed in Chicago, H., to give 72O glasses to every man, woman and child in the city, or $34,7 70 worth for each person. Chicagois enjoying the "blessing" of high license and we might add it is the headquarters of anarchy.
 The plan of Shipley, a Boston archi- tect has been accepted for the new rail- road station in Hartford, and work will begin this week. The new building will be one of the finest and most convenient in the country, will cost from $l50,O 900 to S20O, ,O00 and will be about year in construction. It will be of rough stone, nearly 800 feet in length with central waiting room of 175x8O feet.
 Last Tuesday night J. w. Van Keu- ren of Utica handed his wife tumbler, | &ol1, &r ,,,1r Io1E |, and he would drink the other half He said 1t was medicine they both needed, Shortly after swallowing her portion Van Keuren told his wife that it was Q mixture of strychnine that they had drank. Van Keuren died in terrible agony, but Mrs Van Keuren will recover.
 Five tramps, appearing to be Turks were arrested in Thomaston last week while they were warming themselves by a fire built in shed belonging to Mr. John Taylor. They had with them . little girl about eight years old in 8 shockingly destitute and filthy con- dition. The men were tried and bound over to the Superior court and the child was washed and clothed by Thomaston ladies and sent to the county home at Canaan.
 The cheekiest thing man ever did in sight of his maker is to allow local newspaper to drag along year after year without one cent of his support, and then when one of his family dies bring in half column obituary for insertion with the promise to purchase half dozen copies of that issue but which he fails to do, preferring to borrow them of his different neighbors. There must be hell with plate glass mirrors the whole length of it for such people to see themselves. [Centralia Missouri Preside Guard,
 Petitions are being freely signed in the shops in the western part of Hartford asking for the abolition of liquor saloons in their vicinity. The majority of the workmen acknowledge the harm done to their W. aker fellow -laborers by the put ting of temptation in their way while at work, and ask for the removal of the saloons from the locality east of Broad street to Sigourney on the west and from Capitol avenue on the south to 500 feet north of the railroad track. Within few days two workmen in these shops have died by their own hands after season of hard drinking, and the death of these efellow-workmeui instigated | the present movement.